Questions tagged [xargs]
xargs is a command that executes another command and generates its arguments from stdin
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Storing array as Environment variable to noninteractive shell with xargs
This is in continuation of Storing array as Environment variable to non-interactive shell - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange. Kusalananda, asked me to ask another question.
I want to find all markdown ...
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Opening tab in Firefox using a url on a file
I have a file.txt with some urls and the name of the web. Something like:
WEB1: www.url.com
WEB2: www.url2.com
(No space in the name, and there is a space after the colon) I want to be able to open a ...
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Why xargs -0 adds an extra blank line?
In the example, why xargs -0 adds an extra blank line, and how to avoid it?
$ touch a b c
$ find . -print0
../a./c./b
$ find . -print0 | sort --zero-terminated | xargs -0
. ./a ./b ./c
$ find . -...
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Find files in all directories by name in and copy to another directory using rsync
I have listed file names each per line in list.txt like below
filename1.pdf
file456.pdf
file33.txt
.......
I want to search by file name in a directory (including all subfolders in source) ...
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add .sh extension to all bash files
I have a directory containg several files, including those files some are bash scripts but their name doesn't include the .sh extension.
I know I need to use the file command to know the type of files ...
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Extract and format timestamp in bash
I have script that returns a list of files with the full path to each file. For e.g. - root/folder/file@1610565763436. Hence, the output looks like
/root/folder/file@1610565763436
/root/folder/file@...
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How do I remove all files except some listed in a .csv file [duplicate]
I want to remove all files in a directory while leaving just some specified files, that are listed in .csv file.
Let's say I have some audio files in a home/wavs/ folder and a list of .wav files I ...
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How to pipe a number into bc elegantly?
Is there a more elegant way than using xargs -Ix for the following?
echo "283" | xargs -Ix bc -l -e "scale=2; l( x )/l(10)"
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Using xargs to copy directories
I'm trying to write a script to copy a set of directories that were created today to another directory.
I'm currently using:
find /test/downloads/ -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -mtime -1 -printf '%f\...
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A command to get currently installed versions of those listed with “>=” in requirements file (PIP) using grep/xargs
I have a requirements.txt file with versions listed e.g.
# requirements.txt
channels==2.4.0
colorama>=0.2.3
daphne==2.5.0
django-q>=1.1.4
For versions with == PIP installs that exact version ...
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How to group files from find command into a single line where each file is inside double quotes? [duplicate]
This is a recurrent issue I have always had while dealing with iterations or actions over files found using find.
I have the following files:
$ find . -name "*ES 03-11*"
./01jan/ES 03-11....
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Why can't I answer to `rm -i`'s interactive prompt? [duplicate]
This is the console output when I try to use find | grep ... | args rm -i to delete a bunch of files, but confirm deletion of each one:
user@host:/tmp> touch test1234
user@host:/tmp> find -...
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extracting column value from a command [duplicate]
I've multiple process of xargs running. I want to terminate them all using kill at once . How to do them ? . So far I've tried this
ps -a | grep -i xargs | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill .
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xargs | Use input as command
I would have assumed that following examples work perfectly fine.
$ which -a python python3 pip | xargs -I {} {} --version
No '{}' such file or folder
$ which -a python python3 pip | xargs -I _ _ --...
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xargs sed is renaming files instead of replacing contents
Complex command:
git ls-files | grep -E '\.(ts|xml|json|html|js|scss)$' | xargs sed -ie s/##tag##/1.0.0/g
And in the past it works and replaces in the correct way.
So file version-info.html:
<p>...
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How can I stagger process start times when using xargs --max-procs?
I have hundreds of files to be processed but only want 10 processes to be running at a time.
Suppose the "doSomething" process takes 20 seconds to complete.
The following works but starts 10 ...
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xargs when used with the -x flag overrides the -n flag (number of arguments) on macos catalina 10.15.5
xargs when used with the -x flag overrides the -n flag (number of arguments) on macos catalina 10.15.5.
Where can I report this bug?
ā ~ echo {0..9} | xargs
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
ā ~ echo {0.....
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how do I output multiple files with a heading for each one but without needing to page through them? [duplicate]
I am running a file search command with ag -g foo and I'd like to see the contents of the files I find.
If I do ag -g foo | xargs more then the more command makes me press the spacebar to advance ...
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Reversing order of pdf files to be processed
Context: Catalina = zsh (preferred) or 16.04 Ubuntu = bash
A qpdf example indicates:
# To merge (concatenate) all the pages of a list of PDF files and save the result as a new PDF:
qpdf --empty --...
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Batch convert images with xargs & convert, how to name output file?
It's known that images can be converted to one single pdf with the following command (assuming images filenames are order correctly):
convert *.jpg output.pdf.
However, this approach may take too much ...
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xargs replstr not working as expected. {} not accepted as a second argument
The command I'm trying to run:
mdb-tables davidoff.mdb | xargs -I {} mdb-export davidoff.mdb {} > {}.csv
mdb-export takes two arguments, I'm trying to pipe the second one. And then I want each one ...
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Can't understand how xargs is treating unicode literals
I'm trying to convert unicode literals into readable format. I'm using the -t flag to see what command xargs is going to run before it runs it. I see the following weirdness:
$ echo -n "\\\t\\\...
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How to recursively shift `<user_id>`:`<group_id>` by a specific value using `xargs` or `exec`
I'm trying to recursively shift <user_id>:<group_id> by a specific value using xargs or exec. I'm having difficulty with passing output from find to variable with stat function. I'm ...
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Trying to remove directories below a certain size, and they won't delete
I'm using the below command (in a script on a Synology NAS) trying to remove all folders under 100MB, and while the first part of the command can properly display them, adding the xargs rm doesn't ...
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how to use seq with xargs to curl request [closed]
I'm working on curl commmand
that performs an action based upon parms value
curl 'http://www.example.com/actionid?id=123'
id value i want to pump dynamically so
seq 1 10 | xargs -I + curl 'http://...
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Piping a list of values to a bash script
I have a script. myScript.
It takes two args. myScript arg1 arg2.
Let's say I have three sets of arguments.
argA1 argB1
argA2 argB2
argA3 argB3
Is there a way to pipe each line to myScript. I am open ...
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Running whole body request inside a variable break Curl -O command
This command
seq 1 300 | xargs -n1 -P3 bash -c 'i=$0; url="http://esjindex.org/search.php?id=${i}"; curl -O $url'
i want to adapt for curl request as url variable
'https://abc.ai/hello' -H '...
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Output lost using xargs using curl
Using curl alone as
curl 'https://abc.ai/getMultiDashboard/' -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0
(Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:81.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/81.0' -H
'Accept: application/json' -H 'Accept-...
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Piping to executable with extra params
I have such a command using pipe
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python-poetry/poetry/master/get-poetry.py | python
on the other side I want to provide extra arguments to get-poetry.py ...
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Command works fine but fails when executed remotely over ssh
The below command works fine of remote AiX server when run on the server.
ls -ltr /tmp/*.pid | grep "$(date '+%b %e')"
Output:
-rwx-rwx-rw-- ........ Oct 1 /tmp/new.pid
echo $?
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mlocate: how to print files only [duplicate]
I have the following version of locate:
$ locate --version
mlocate 0.26
Copyright (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved.
This software is distributed under the GPL v.2.
This program is provided ...
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How can I expand a single-quoted tilde from xargs in sh?
I have a list of files stored in a file, and I want to grep each of those files for a search term.
However, xargs forwards arguments as single quoted strings, so for all of the files prefixed with a ~,...
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Handle umlauts in file names when using xarg
I've seen some similar questions here where people have problems with xargs handling spaces in file names. Surprisingly, I don't run into this issue, but a similar one.
I'm copying a fixed amount of ...
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How can I run `gradlew clean build` in all subdirs starting with given prefix?
I have multiple project directories project-one, project-two, different-project. I want to run ./gradlew clean build within all these directories that begin with project-. Can I use xargs to do that? ...
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Search for a string in all searched files gives /bin/grep: Argument list too long error
I tried the below command to search for in all files user /var
sudo find . -type f | xargs sudo grep 202007602 | tee /tmp/202007602.log
Output:
grep: ./www/html/jenkins/workspace/node_modules/xpath/...
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xargs with zgrep is giving the error
I have many gzipped files and I am trying to find some string pattern from the thousands of file but I am getting extra .gz while trying to zgrep it. Please refer the below, could you please advise. ...
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How to run second command only when first is successful when using find and xargs?
My situation is:
I have many files with a name timestep1_i for many values of i and I am trying to combine all the files for timestep1 with a program called combinefiles. I want to do it in parallel (...
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Reliable way to open files given by the result of find ā¦ -exec grep ā¦ {} \+
I often run commands like this:
find ā¦ -exec grep ā¦ --color=always -l {} \+
and sometimes I need to open the matching files in Vim.
But what is the most reliable way to do so?
One way seems to be
vim ...
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Why does host and nslookup think IP address is a hostname?
Why does this command fail (this is a simplified version of the actual command)?
/tmp $ echo 74.6.231.20 | xargs -n1 -I {} echo "$(host -d {})"
Trying "74.6.231.20.<REDACTED>.<...
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-exec to xargs conversion in find command
I'm using the below command in my script to perform a dos2unix operation on the files which I copy from Windows to Linux. There are many files, so it takes a considerable amount of time to perform ...
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Issue launching vim using xargs -r on a fzf result [duplicate]
I think I am misunderstanding something in the Linux piping with respect to xargs -r in combination with fzf.
In my bashrc I have the function
ef ()
{
fzf | xargs -r -I vim
}
But written like ...
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running tasks in parallel as well writing to single file
#!/bin/bash
range=$(seq -f "ma%04g" 5001 5505)
for n in $range;do
ping -q -c 1 -w 3 -s 10 $n >/dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ];then
awk -F, -v key="${n}" -v ...
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Why is `-r` seemingly ignored when used with `-0` in GNU xargs?
The regular case with linefeeds, xargs calls printf and something is printed:
>>printf "foo\n" | xargs -r printf "->%s\n"
->foo
>>
With an empty input instead, -...
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How to search for a sub-string in the files which contain another sub-string
I wanted to search for a string in a list of files which has another string. Basically, I had to get the list of files with the first string and then do a search on these files for another string.
The ...
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Why do I get an error when deleting entries from Bash history?
I have some commands in my Bash history that I want to remove.
I can find them with history | grep "command with password" then remove them with history -d <line-number>
However, when ...
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cant modify files with the same name which are in different locations when piping find to xargs
on mac using gnu tools
Im not sure whats happening but it seems piping the output of find to xargs has some issue with touching files with the same name that appear in the directory structure in ...
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How to edit a list of generated files whose names contain spaces
I've got a relatively small list of filenames generated from a pipeline based on find. The file names contain spaces and possibly punctuation but definitely no other non-printing characters or ...
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Using tail -f together with sed and xargs
Suppose I have the following process to write a number + single quote to the file /tmp/test every second:
for i in {1..1000} ; do echo $i\' ; sleep 1 ; done > /tmp/test
I then want to use tail -f ...
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Process in Pipe which Processes 256 bytes at a Time
I have a c program on a Cyclone 5 that does an FFT using the connected FPGA. This program currently takes 256 bytes from stdin and then process it gives the FFT results on stdout. I run it like this ...
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Making a pipe from `ls` to `mv`
I am trying to make a small utility for myself on the command line - for a given current work directory I would like to find the most recently added file and mv it to a name given by argument
I have ...
